Who are we?

We are a group of Muslim apostates, who have
left Islam out of our own conviction when we discovered that Islam is
not a religion at all. Most of us took a prolonged period of time to
study, evaluate and contemplate on Islam, the religion of our
birth. Having meticulously scrutinized Islam, we concluded that it is
not a religion of peace at all, as touted by smooth-talking,
self-serving Muslims and their apologists from non-Muslim
backgrounds. The core of Islam—that is, the
Qur'an, Hadis and Sharia—is filled with
unbounded hatred of the unbelievers, is unbelievably intolerant toward
them, and is extremely cruel and merciless to Muslims who dare to deviate
from its doctrine.

We also realized that Islam is beyond
alteration, because Muslims—who attempt to
modernize and reform its unremitting bigotry, irrational rituals and
its cruel and draconian punitive measures—are
targeted for annihilation. Our verdict was that the only way to escape
from the tyranny of Islam is to leave it altogether. We have,
therefore, discarded Islam from our lives so that we can be free to
enjoy a normal, pleasant and humane life in complete harmony with all
peoples on earth, irrespective of their religion, race or creed.

Having thoroughly understood—through
our meticulous investigation of Islam for years to decades—that
Islam was nothing but a lie forged by Muhammad, most of us have left Islam silently
because of the threat to our life from believing Muslims, apostasy is
punished with death in Islam. As Islamic terrorism and violence
overwhelms the world, particularly in the post-9/11 years, we felt
that it's a responsibility upon us to make world's 1.4+ billion Muslims
aware of the falsity of their religion and its cruel nature, so that
they can make informed choices and leave Islam to live with love,
respect and harmony with the rest of humanity.

We also felt it incumbent upon us to make the
non-Muslim world aware of the reality of Islam, and take timely
precautionary measures against this religion of terror, hatred and
mayhem. We tell the world that the ongoing terrorism, unleashed by
Islamic militants, is not an aberration from the so-called 'peaceful
religion of Islam'; instead, it is the real Islam preached and
practiced by its founder, Prophet Muhammad. A thorough study of the
Qur'an and prophetic tradition (Hadith, Sunnah) makes that
obvious.

We, therefore, have launched this website to
expose the "real Islam"—the Islam that is
determined to replace the modern civilization with the 7th-century
Arab Bedouin barbarism, peddled by Muslims as the true Islamic Civilization. Let
the world watch Islam through
www.islam-watch.org and be warned.

'Islam Watch' is founded by a few Muslim
apostates. Hailing mainly from South Asia, some of us left Islam after
the 9/11; others have been apostates since prior to that. We aim to
establish that Islam is a forgery of Muhammad, who never communicated
with a presumed unseen deity. We feel that it needs to be
emasculated, or marginalized, or eliminated altogether, if the Muslim
world wants to come out of its current backwardness and quagmire,
characterized by poverty, corruption, illiteracy, violence, misrule
and tyranny, in which they have been thrown in due to Islamic
indoctrination.

To learn more about why some of us have left
Islam, please read these testimonies:

Our Challenge

We assert that
Islam is not a religion of peace, but quite the contrary.

We affirm that
Islam is a forgery of Muhammad.

We claim that
Islam is responsible for rampant corruption, widespread misrule,
implausible tyranny, mindless terrorism, unrelenting violence and
pervasive social injustice in the Muslim world.

Our Mission (Why
This Site)

Our ultimate aim is to guide Muslims out of the
fold of Islam. We also expect that critical voice against Islam will
render it somewhat benign.

We plan to achieve our goals in the following
manners:

We
will criticize and expose the real truth about Islam without minding
about any political correctness, whatsoever.

We
will establish that Islam is false in the sense that it was not
revealed by any God, but was created by Prophet Muhammad himself to
fulfill his greed, ego and ambition.

We
will prove that Islam has nothing to do with peace; instead, it is a
dangerous cult founded through violence, terror, plunder and extreme
injustice by its founder Muhammad.

We
will prove that Islam is incompatible with the modern world. Islamic
precepts stand in contravention to the concept of democracy,
tolerance, human rights and gender equality, and hence is dangerous
for modern civilization.

We
will demonstrate that Islamic terrorism, as witnessed today, is
sanctioned by Islam. Terrorists did not hijack Islam; instead, Islam
itself has hijacked some otherwise good human beings and turned them
into machines for terror, murder and destruction.

We
will also awaken the non-Muslim world, especially the West, about
the short-term and long-term dangers of Islam to their good and
benevolent societies.

As
nontheistic humanists, we strongly affirm that human life should be
guided by human conscience, wisdom and judgment based on the Golden
Rule. This is an ever-changing, dynamic, process; as people gain new
experience, scientific knowledge and insights into the workings of
the world and human life, our ethical wisdom would change. Opposed
to religious doctrines, no particular set of rules or values should
be considered absolute and universal. We propagate that 'Live your
own life and let other live theirs, as long as they don't harm and
cause nuisance to others'.

"Islam Watch" will be dominated by ex-Muslim and
progressive Muslim
writers. We will make some room for non-Muslim authors to help us
gauge how the non-Muslim world grasps the truth about Islam.

To
create a critical mass of critics of Islam from Muslim backgrounds,
one of our missions will be to create new writers, critical of
Islam, from amongst Muslims. We will put maximum effort in nurturing
these nascent talents. To this end, we will urge Muslim writers to
pen their critical thoughts on Islam, regardless of how good they
are, and we will try to accommodate them in our website.

Although "Islam Watch" has been launched by ex-Muslims coming mainly
from South Asia, we aim to connect to Muslim apostates and critics
from all corners of the world. We encourage them, from wherever they
are, to voice their opinions through "Islam Watch".

We
will publish a select number of Op-Ed/Articles of non-Muslim authors
of strongly secular conviction. Selection of articles by non-Muslim
authors would be solely at discretion of the editors.

Publishing Guidelines

We will follow the following guidelines in order to maintain the focus of our website as well as to maintain a decent atmosphere. We are be open
to any criticism or modifications of these guidelines and will accommodate views which are fair, reasonable and which enhances our efforts to achieve our goals.

Though
'Islam Watch' will be mainly for critical discussions of all aspects of Islam—politics, terrorism and
the falsity of its foundation etc., but
as a nontheistic platform, we may accept general criticisms of other religions.

We will accept general philosophical discussions that debunk the futility or falsity of all religions, including Islam.

Generally, we will not publish articles that preach or glorify Islam or any other religions. The only reason we may publish them is to prove the vacuity of such commentary.

Original articles written by our members will be given preference.
Their postings will be according to our aims and objectives. As nurturing of emerging writers is one of our cardinal aims, we will encourage budding writers to forward their articles.

We will allow contributors to write under real or fictitious names. We encourage contributors to write under pennames because of the danger associated with the critiquing of Islam.

Posting of any write-up will be purely at the discretion of the editors.